Safety-razor.



L. D. SAXTON.

SAFETY RAZOR. APPLIOATIOI? FILED OCT. 26, 1910.

1,009,101. Patented N0v.21, 1911.

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LIONEL D. SAXTON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y. 7

- SAFETY-RAZOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 21, 1911.

Application filed October 28, 1910. Serial No. 589,525.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LIONEL D. SAXTON, a citizen of the United States,residing in the borough of Manhattan, city, county, and State of NewYork, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Safety-Razors, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to safety razors and its object is to provide forthe use of a blade with a single cutting edge and no side notches, saidblade to be held in place by spring pressure exerted from within thehandle as will be more fully described in the following specificationset forth in the claims and illustrated in the drawings, wherein Figurel is a perspective view of the improved razor. Fig. 2 is a similar viewshow ing the parts detached and from their lower sides. Fig. 3 is avertical sectional view.

The razor comprises a hollow handle 5, of any desired outside design andhaving at its upper end a cross arm 6 rigidly secured thereto and withnotches 7 at either end.

Into the hollow handle is fitted a stem 8 having at its outer end theguard plate 9 which holds the blade 10 in place against the cap plate1 1. This style of razor ordi' narily is provided with a blade havingnotches at its ends, but the present invention is adapted to receive andcarry a blade such as is shown in Fig. 2. The upper surface of the plate9 is perfectly flat and plain, but it may be slightly inclined towardthe guard teeth 13. The plate 9 has notches 18, at its opposite ends topermit the plate to be placed in position on the blade 10 after thelatter has been positioned on the cap plate 11 the lugs 15 passingthrough the notches in plate 9. \Vhen the blade is positioned on the capplate 14, it is held by the guard plate 9, which has on its endsopposite to the guard teeth 13, projecting shoulders 11 which fit intothe recesses 12 in the cap plate 1 1 to hold the guard plate inposition. The cap plate has at either end depending lugs 15, turnedinwardly toward themselves to receive the outer ends of the cross arm 6,the notches fitting about the lugs so that the cross arm will not turnwithout pressure upon the handle 5. The cap plate 14: is also providedwith a flange, and shoulders 17 which hold the blade in the properrelative position between the guard plate 9 and the cap plate 14:. WVhenthe cross arm has been pressed down against the guard plate 9, the endsare swung around under the lugs, the pressure is released and the springin the handle 5 causes the notches 7 to engage the lugs 15. The blade isthen firmly held between the two plates and the razor is ready for use.

I have secured in my invention a simply constructed device of few parts,which can be easily and quickly taken apart and put together again whena blade is to be removed or inserted. This is an important feature inview of the fact that safety razor blades are ordinarily stropped anumber of times before they need to be honed.

It is obvious that the details of this razor may be otherwise arrangedand modified without departing from the essential features abovedescribed.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In a safety razor the combination of the following elements; a capplate having depending sides with inwardly projecting ends, meansadapted to position the blade comprising a flange on one edge of the capplate and shoulders on the ends of the opposite edge of the cap plateand recesses adapted to engage with shoulders on the guard plate; ablade sharpened on one edge; a notched guard plate having guard teeth onone edge and projecting shoulders adapted to engage with the saidrecesses in the cap plate and a handle with locking means comprising across arm with notched ends adapted to engage with the inwardlyprojecting ends of the depending sides of the cap plate and rigidlyconfine the blade between the cap plate and the guard plate.

2. In a safety razor, the combination of the following elements; a capplate having dependin sides with inwardly projecting ends, bla epositioning shoulders and flange and recesses adapted to engage withshoulders on the guard plate; a blade sharpened on one edge; a notchedguard plate with a stem and with guard teeth on one edge and havingprojecting shoulders adapted to engage with the said recesses in the capplate;

a hollow handle with a cross arm having In witness whereof, I havehereunto set notched ends adapted to engage with the my hand this 17thday of October, 1910. inwardly projecting ends of the depending sides ofthe cap plate and a spring within LIONEL SAXTON' the handle adapted tohold the ends of the Witnesses:

cross arm in engagement with the ends of JULIUS W. MANNEBAOH,

the sides of the cap plate. ANTHONY F. AROOME.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, I). G.

